6.1820 Calendar: Spring 2025

Here is the tentative schedule of lectures and due dates.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
	Feb 4 First day of classes LEC 1: Introduction and Key Ideas (Slides) Assigned: Lab 0		Feb 6 LEC 2: Fundamentals of IoT Localization (Slides) Preparation: Read Location-based Services, Wikipedia: GPS (Questions)	Feb 7 iOS Tutorial 10am-11am in 66-144.
	Feb 11 LEC 3: Practical Device-based Localization (Slides) Preparation: Read Cricket, RADAR Assigned: Lab 1 Assigned: Pset 1 (Questions)		Feb 13 LEC 4: Seeing through Walls & Device-Free Localization (Slides) Preparation: Read WiTrack DUE: Lab 0 (Questions)
Feb 17 Presidents' Day	Feb 18 No class. Monday schedule of classes		Feb 20 LEC 5: Network Connectivity (BLE, low-power WAN, Wi-Fi, cellular, 5G) (Slides) Preparation: Read gps surveillance DUE: Lab 1 (Questions)
	Feb 25 LEC 6: Mesh and Multi-Hop Wireless Networks (Slides) Preparation: Read ETX (Questions)		Feb 27 LEC 7: Batteryless Connectivity & Smart Cities (Slides) Preparation: Read Hacking RFIDs and Caraoke (Questions) Assigned: Lab 2
	Mar 4 LEC 8: Intro to Inertial Sensing; Activity Recognition (Slides) Preparation: Read Developments of Inertial Sensing and Principles of Inertial Sensing (Section 3.1 and 3.2 only) (Questions)		Mar 6 LEC 9: Pothole detection (Slides) Preparation: Read Pothole Patrol (Questions) DUE: Pset 1
	Mar 11 LEC 10:Self-Driving Cars (Slides) Preparation: Read Hawkeye: Through Fog High Resolution Imaging Using Millimeter Wave Radar (Questions) Assigned:Lab 3 DUE: Lab 2		Mar 13 LEC 11:Earables and Health (Slides) Preparation: Read APG: Audioplethysmography for Cardiac Monitoring in Hearables (Questions) Assigned: Project Proposal Instructions	Assigned: Pset 2
	Mar 18 LEC 12: Attacks on Acoustic Sensing (Slides) Preparation: Read BackDoor (Questions) DUE: Lab 3		Mar 20 LEC 13: Mobile & Augmented/Mixed Reality (Slides) Preparation: Read XaiR (Questions) Assigned:Lab 4
Mar 24 Spring Break	Mar 25 Spring Break	Mar 26 Spring Break	Mar 27 Spring Break	Mar 28 Spring Break
	Apr 1 LEC 14: Agriculture IoT (Slides) Preparation: Read FarmBeats (Questions) DUE: Project Proposals		Apr 3 LEC 15: Ocean IoT (Slides) Preparation: Read Underwater Backscatter Networking (Questions)
	Apr 8 Project meetings (No lecture; meet with staff during class time) DUE: Lab 4		Apr 10 Project meetings (No lecture; meet with staff during class time) DUE: Pset 2
	Apr 15 Quiz review session during class DUE:Final Project Components List		Apr 17 Midterm during lecture time
Apr 21 Patriots' Day	Apr 22 Project meetings (No lecture; meet with staff during class time) Drop Date		Apr 24 Project meetings (No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
	Apr 29 Project meetings (No lecture; meet with staff during class time)		May 1 Project meetings (No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
	May 6 Project meetings (No lecture; meet with staff during class time) DUE: Project Titles and Abstracts		May 8 Project meetings (No lecture; meet with staff during class time)
	May 13 Final Presentations DUE: Presentations and Demos Last Day of Classes			May 16 Finals begin